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Having problems with your Vivitar ViviCam 4345 Digital Camera ?

Lens jammed??? Okay, Sadly, I did drop my vivicam4345 digital camera, while trying to take pictures... T_T I guess in a momentary lapse of judgement I failed to put the strap around my wrist.. but whatever, it still happened.... sooo.... my problem is this: Everything on the camera works, except the lens, I never get a "lens error" message either, however, now that it's been dropped the lens does not go completely inside/flush to the camera....and the inner ring of the lens does not really exten

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Lens jammed??? Okay, Sadly, I did drop my vivicam4345 digital camera, while trying to take pictures... T_T I guess in a momentary lapse of judgement I failed to put the strap around my wrist.. but whatever, it still happened.... sooo.... my problem is this: Everything on the camera works, except the lens, I never get a "lens error" message either, however, now that it's been dropped the lens does not go completely inside/flush to the camera....and the inner ring of the lens does not really exten

Hi,
I have Nikon P90. From last week i am facing following problem.
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